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Napoleon’s Blackguards
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In 1808, Napoleon invades Spain under a ruse, and the British Army prepares to meet him there. The French Army is the most formidable ...Read Review
Solovyov and Larionov
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Russian novels are hefty and generally involve a sweeping panorama of people and events. Solovyov and Larionov is cast in that same mode, ...Read Review
Hall of Mirrors: Virginia Hall: America’s Greatest Spy of WWII
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One of WWII’s most successful spies was a Baltimore native in her 30s. Her age and gender made the profession unlikely, not ...Read Review
Charity’s Burden (A Quaker Midwife Mystery)
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In the winter of 1889, Quaker midwife Rose Carroll cares deeply for her patients in Amesbury, Massachusetts. She understands the financial difficulties of poor ...Read Review
The Infamous Duchess
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London, 1820. Since the death of her elderly husband within days of her marriage, Viola Cartwright, dowager Duchess of Tremaine, has kept a low ...Read Review
The Nuremberg Trials
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The Nuremberg Trials are about to begin, and the victorious nations are determined that the Nazis will be brought to justice. The USSR’...Read Review
Friends and Enemies
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This novel tells the story of Kathy Hammond, beginning in 1941 when she and her mother flee to an air raid shelter and only ...Read Review
A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery)
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August 1899. American-born Frances Wynn, the newly widowed Countess of Harleigh, now living in London, settles into a quiet few summer months in London ...Read Review
Murder at Archly Manor (High Society Lady Detective)
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Murder is glamorous fun in this first in Rosett’s High Society Lady Detective Series. In 1920s London, Olive Belgrave is well-born but ...Read Review
All Manner of Things
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Annie Jacobson’s father, Frank, a Korean War veteran, couldn’t adapt to reassuming his role as father and husband upon his return. ...Read Review